SYFY MAKING MOVIES FOR THEATRICAL RELEASE, TARA REID’S PAYCHEQUE’S SEE SLIGHT INCREASE
The SyFy channel, best known for their difficulty in spelling and their propensity for green-lighting terrible TV movies about sharks that are also dinosaurs or whatever, have decided to imagine greater things for themselves by expanding their movie making efforts. Having founded a new division under the name ‘SyFy Films’, they will now be producing movies for actual theatrical releases, before they tumble out of theatres after a week or two and end up on, well, SyFy.
Don’t be worried that SyFy are going to fly too close to the sun or anything though, as the first effort from SyFy Films sounds like their standard fare, shark-weather disasters aside. They are first making a sci-fi thrilled called 400 Days, set for release on January 12, 2016. The film will be about astronauts being subjected to experiments in space, and will feature the likes of Brandon Routh, Tom Cavanaugh and Dane Cook. Truly, by combining the smug, barely-trying efforts of SyFy original movies and the smug, barely-trying efforts of Dane Cook, we may now have the most horrifying mash-up monster of them all.
WHAT ABOUT KEY AND PEELE THOUGH?
Comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have given themselves nice, busy schedules after the end of their sketch show Key and Peele a few months ago, including lending their voices to the Angry Birds movie and the Captain Underpants movie respectively (the lads have to eat) and a future collaboration in the over-saturated “pet cat gets stolen by street gang” genre in Keanu. Now according to Variety, the comedy pair are going to be helping the man behind The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline with his next project. That’s right, Tim Burton Henry Selick!
The man frequently not credited for his fantastic animated films is developing a new project called Wendall and Wild, a comedy about two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her goth teen acolytes, Kat and Raoul, all of which sounds like exactly the kind of thing that makes your dumb cousin go “hey did you hear about that new Tim Burton movie?” Selick will co-write the film with Peele, and will direct and produce. Hopefully together the trio will put together the kind of movie that would get the valets excited.